Moti, the lucky pearl

Call from – Prashant Paradkar

Animal – 2.5 to 3 month old stray puppy, brown coloured

Date of case starting – February 18^th, 2011

Story –

Prashant Paradkar is one of our active members and feeds a few of the dogs and pups outside his complex, Niharika. There are two vendors as well who feed the dogs there as well. Prashant saw that one of the pups was limping very badly. On asking the vendors, they told him that the pup had been run over by a bike. 

 Prashant informed us right away. Arundhati, Prathamesh and me (Aditi) reached the spot and located the pup. He was very scared of us. But he let Arundhati examine him. After checking him thoroughly, Arundhati said that it was definitely a fracture and that he was in pain. We got him Crocin Drops as the pain killer and some Betnasol as well. We could not take him for an X Ray as it was very late in the night. The following day, Deepika, Prathamesh and me once again went to the site and spotted the pup. We called Mrs. Shakuntala Majumdar of Thane SPCA and asked her if we should admit the puppy right away in T SPCA. She told us to go to Dr. Chariar and get an X Ray done. We muzzled him and took him to the clinic.

Dr. Chariar examined him and asked us to take an X Ray. He gave us a note for Krishna X Ray centre, Panchpakhadi. We took the pup there and got the X Ray done.
We then took the puppy to Dr. Ganguli’s house as we did not know where else we could keep him safe till 5 pm (the time that Dr. Chariar’s clinic would open again).

We took him back to the clinic at 5pm. Dr. Chariar plastered the pup’s hand and told us that we could take him to the V Teams hospital at Mulund. Being a pup, he required more care and attention that regular dogs.

We left him at the hospital by evening 7 pm. He was at the hospital for a period of 8 10 days. 

Once Dr. Chariar and his team felt that he had recovered, they told us that we could take him back to his home ground (in this case, literally a ground! )

He had been named “Moti” by the ward boy who had been taking good care of him all the days he had been at the hospital.  

 On the way back from Mulund, Moti decided to shower me with some holy water (read Pee). Not only were my clothes soaked in pee, but also the entire back seat of the car! 

 We took him back to his home territory where his pack along with his family (brothers and sisters) once again accepted him happily!

Dr. V M Chariar and Dr Jaya Chariar with their son Mukundan

Prashant Paradkar  is a PAL living in Niharika. He and his Doberman Leo are good friends with the entire gang of strays living outside the complex. Prashant makes it a point to try and feed them whenever he can. He has made friends with the vegetable vendors living outside Niharika and has convinced them to feed the dogs over there as well. Way to go Prashant!!